svn commit: r510950 - in head/Mk: . Scripts

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 3 15:51:39 UTC 2019


On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:37, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Author: bapt
> Date: Tue Sep  3 14:36:00 2019
> New Revision: 510950
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/510950
>
> Log:
>   Add support for overlays
>
>   overlays are a way to help users to integrate their own ports tree
>   with the official ports tree without having to maintain clone of the
>   official tree and remerge on regular basis.
>
>   The ports tree will lookup in the overlays (in the order the are listed
> in
>   OVERLAY variable) for the dependencies and the USES. It will use the
> first
>   found.
>
>   in order to use it the user have to declare his overlays that way in
> their
>   make.conf:
>   OVERLAYS= overlay1 overlay2 overlay3
>
>   Reviewed by:  manu
>   Approved by:  swills
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21468


Awesome work! Thanks a lot! I'll make use of it for sure.


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